Combined stove and fireless cooker.



H. K. DIRLAM & S. A. PRHS'CHAU.

COMBINED STOVE AND FlRELESS COOKER.

APPLICATION FILED MAIL 22. I915.

Patented Nov. 23, 1915.

anr n HOWARD K. DIRLAM. AND SIEGFEIED.A, PRITSCHAU, 0F MANSFIELD, OHIO, ASSIGNORS TOTI-IE BAXTER STOVE COMPANY, OF MANSFIELD, 01-110, A CORPORATION. OF OHIO.

COMBINEDVSTOVE AND FIRELESS COOKER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 23, 1915.

Application filed March 22, 1915; Serial No. 16,033.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, IIOWARD K. DIRLAM and Sinornrnn A. PnrrsoHAU, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Mansfield, in the county of Richland and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvement in a Combined Stove and Fireless Cooker, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the combination of a stove and fireless cooker.

The objects of our invention areto provide a means of movably supporting a fireless cooker within an opening in the stove thereby retaining the heat therein for a longer period of time; to provide means for supporting the fireless cooker in close proximity to the stove when it is withdrawn from the opening; to provide means of economizing in space or room in the combined use of a stove and fireless cooker; to so locate the fireless cooker with reference, to the stove as to provide ready, convenient and easy manipulation of the food and utensilsto and from the fireless cooker and stove; and to provide stops to regulate the withdrawal of the fireless cooker from the opening.

We attain these and other objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevation partly in section with a part broken away of a conventional type of stove assembled to leave a space or opening between the bottom of the stove and floor, also showing a fireless cooker within the space and slidably secured to the bottom of the stove. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1 showing the fireless cooker within the space underneath the stove in full lines and withdrawn from the space and supported in front of the stove in dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of one of the looped rail tracks which is secured to the bottom of the stove. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view partly in section taken on the line X X of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a detail view of a part of an angle iron bracket having a stop pivotally mounted thereon.

In proceeding according to the drawings, reference numeral 1 represents the body of a conventional type of stove and 2 the legs thereof which preferably support the stove to provide a space or opening 3 underneath the5stove. The body of the stove is provided with a downward depending flange 4. Rails 5 and 6 are securely attached to the bottom 7 of the stove body and are provided with looped tracks 8 and 9. The looped tracks depend below the flange 4 and are spaced apart a predetermined distanoe and aline with and arranged to have the openings of the looped tracks toward each other.

The rails 5 and 6 have tops 20 engaged with the bottom 7 of the stove body, the tops being bent down to form inner sides 21. The inner sides have end extensions which latter extend outwardly at right angles and are secured to flange 4: at the front and rear sides of the latter, thus enabling the rails to be affixed to stoves of varying types by mere alteration of the rail lengths. It will be further noted that brackets 10 (Fig. 2) extend to the rear of the cooker and stove when the cooker is in out position, which results in the weight of the cooker being distributed uniformly throughout the length of the tracks and in addition against the stove bottom and from beneath the latter.

Angle iron brackets 10 and 11 are secured to the fireless cooker casing 12 adjacent to and flush with the top and the ends thereof extend beyond the back wall 13 of the casing for the purpose of supporting the fireless cooker in front of the stove. The free parts of the brackets are received in and slidably engage the looped tracks of the rails as shown in Fig. 1, thereby movably supporting the fireless cooker to permit it to be withdrawn from the space 3 and supported in front of the stove as shown in dotted lines on Fig. 2 or pushed therein flush with the front of stove as shown in full lines.

In order to prevent the withdrawal of the fireless cooker from the opening beyond a predetermined point, a pair of pivoted flexible stops 14- and 15 are provided and mounted upon the brackets to rest upon the locking pins 16. When the fireless cooker is withdrawn to the pre-determined point, the stops contact with the depending flange 4 thereby preventing further withdrawal or sliding forward movement of the fireless cooker.

The purpose of making the stops of flexible material is to permit the stops to be pressed laterally to clear the locking pins .(as shown in Fig. 5) and force the end of the stop on a plane with the top of the brackets so thatthe fireless cooker can be crated and shipped independent of the stove and easily assembled when they reach their destination without the use of tools.

The stops are forced to assume a position that will not prevent the brackets from engaging the looped tracks. When the stops are moved in pushing the fireless cooker into the openings beyond the flange 4, they are manipulated to assume the position shown in Figs. i and 5 to rest upon the locking pins 16. When it is desired to place in or remove from the fireless cooker the food and cooking utensils, the handle 17 is grasped and the tireless cooker pulled to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2,'f0r the convenient and easy accessibility of the user.

When the fireless cooker is not in use, it is pushed within the opening 3 as shown in full lines in Fig. 2 in which position it retains the heat for a longer period of time,

economizing in room and does not interfere with the use of'the stove.

What is claimed is:

1. In combination with a stove having a bottom and an encompassing depending flange, a pair of rails having tops, inner sides depending from the tops and having end extensions disposed at right angles, said tops being engaged with and throughout the width of the stove bottom and said end extensions being secured .to the rear and front sides of the flange, said'sides terminating in outwardly disposed loops forming tracks which latter extend below the flange, a fireless cooker, and brackets affixed to the cooker and extending rearwardly-therefrom ,and engaged insaid tracks whereby when the cooker is in position the brackets will extend'beyond the rear of the stove and when the cooker is in out position said brackets will engage the tracks throughout substantially the entire lengths thereof so as to evenly distribute the pressure from the weight of the cooker on the tracks and to the sto e bottom from beneath the latter.

2. In combination with a stove having a bottom and an encompassing flange depending from the bottom, tracks having ends secured to the flange at the front and rear sides of the latter, said tracks extending below the flange, and a cooker having brackets which latter extend beyond the rear thereof and are received in said tracks whereby when the cooker is in out position the brackets will engage the tracks substantially throughout the lengths of the latter so as to distribute the weight of the cooker throughout the lengths of the tracks, said cooker also being adapted to be moved from the front of the stove to its operative position beneath the same.

3. In combination with a stove having a bottom, a pair of tracks extending the width of and engaging beneath the bottom, and a cooker having brackets which engage throughout the lengths of the tracks when the cooker is in out position so as to evenly distribute the weight of the cooker throughout the lengths of the tracks and throughout the width of the stove bottom, said cooker also being adapted to be moved from the front of the stove to its operative position beneath the same.

In testimony whereof we aiiix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

HOI VARD K. DIRLAM. SIEGFRIED A. PRITSCHAU.

Vitnesses:

JOHN H. Coss, PEARL M. YURCHER.

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